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Pa. school district settles webcam spy lawsuits for $610K

April 26, 2011October 13, 2010 by Meris Stansbury
A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured…
District Management

Pa. school settles 2 webcam spy lawsuits for $610K

October 12, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops, reports the Associated Press.
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Feds: No charges in school laptop-spying case

November 5, 2013August 18, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
No criminal charges will be filed against a suburban Philadelphia school district that secretly snapped tens of thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots on laptops issued to…
District Management

Students to see photos snapped in Pa. webcam ‘spying’ case

May 19, 2010 by Staff and wire services reports
Students in two suburban Philadelphia high schools will be allowed to view photographs taken by their school-issued laptops, and they may preview them first before deciding which images…
District Management

Report: No spying in Pa. school laptops case

May 5, 2010May 5, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
There's no evidence a suburban Pennsylvania school district used school-issued laptops to spy on students, despite its questionable policies and its lack of regard for students' privacy, according…
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Employee in webcam spying flap: Teen had no expectation of privacy

May 4, 2010April 21, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
A school technology official at the center of a webcam spying scandal says the Pennsylvania student suing her employer should not have had any expectation of privacy, because…
District Management

Family: Pa. district snared thousands of secret webcam images

November 5, 2013April 19, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
New allegations have surfaced in the case of a suburban Philadelphia school district accused of activating laptop web cameras to spy on students in their homes.
District Management

School webcam spying prompts call for new laws

August 18, 2010March 30, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., is pushing for new federal laws on electronic privacy as a school district in his home state struggles with a lawsuit over attempts to…
District Management

Official: FBI probing school webcam spying case

February 22, 2010February 20, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
A Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students' homes is under investigation by federal authorities, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the…
District Management

School district sued for using webcams to spy on students

February 20, 2010February 19, 2010 by From staff and wire reports
A suburban Philadelphia school district used the webcams in school-issued laptop computers to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a…

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